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Comments for "Fontsite/Softmaker: so what?"enIf you may prove to behttp://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-529815
<p>If you may prove to be correct, you shall be named citizen of honour and a typoholic Nostradamus. You may post, as you do fancy, lists that shall continue for an infinitude of pages. Until that beautiful day though...</p>
Sat, 10 Nov 2012 21:46:34 +0000Queneaucomment 529815 at http://typophile.comDDD,
Instead of postinghttp://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-529789
<p>DDD,<br />
Instead of posting never-ending lists repeatedly, you would be better off just pointing to the list on your site just once. We are all getting carpal tunnel from excessive scrolling here. What you are doing is counterproductive to your own objectives in that anyone reading your posts will assume you are in need of medical or psychiatric attention?</p>
Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:48:06 +0000dezcomcomment 529789 at http://typophile.comNaw, @Uli, all we have herehttp://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-529786
<p>Naw, @Uli, all we have here is "The Song Without End".</p>
Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:30:50 +0000Té Rowancomment 529786 at http://typophile.comUli, quoting Emily Dickinsonhttp://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-529768
<p>Uli, quoting Emily Dickinson in this thread, you just made my week!</p>
Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:23:16 +0000Karl Stangecomment 529768 at http://typophile.com"A little madness in thehttp://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-529703
<p><strong>"A little madness in the spring<br />
is wholesome even for the king."</strong><br />
(Emily Dickinson)</p>
<p>But do we have springtime?</p>
Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:54:33 +0000Ulicomment 529703 at http://typophile.com*snooork...*http://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-529208
<p>*snooork...*</p>
Mon, 05 Nov 2012 19:11:21 +0000Té Rowancomment 529208 at http://typophile.com[sigh]http://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-527863
<p>[sigh]</p>
Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:45:39 +0000Queneaucomment 527863 at http://typophile.comHey, you can always use themhttp://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-527731
<p>Hey, you can always use them to build the DTP System From Hell: Get a Pentium MMX system with Win98 and slap Serif Publisher or Greenstreet Publisher on it.</p>
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:42:59 +0000Té Rowancomment 527731 at http://typophile.comIt is something like a crosshttp://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-527717
<p>It is something like a cross between Luc and Uli's content but without their unique filters and could be put to far better uses. I suppose if it continues that it may well attract the same attention as it did on MyFonts and Wikipedia.</p>
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:59:46 +0000Karl Stangecomment 527717 at http://typophile.comIf Mr Despie is indeedhttp://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-527671
<p>If Mr Despie is indeed autistic and obsessed with type, maybe there is some way to channel that obsession into something more interesting and useful to the community than a collection of clones of old fonts that no one much cares about. Seriously, this is deeply boring stuff: the detritus of the desktop publishing rush to digitise. The diamonds among the heaps of slag are few and far between, and most of them have long since been produced in better digital versions by the true trademark owners.</p>
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 19:58:27 +0000John Hudsoncomment 527671 at http://typophile.comGet his teacher to explainhttp://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-527628
<p>Get his teacher to explain that here too.</p>
<p>hhp</p>
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:55:59 +0000hrantcomment 527628 at http://typophile.comKarl...that's somehttp://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-527625
<p>Karl...that's some interesting reading.</p>
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:25:02 +0000aluminumcomment 527625 at http://typophile.comHmmm, perhaps it is best nothttp://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-527610
<p>Hmmm, perhaps it is best not to dabble in such things... I do like this combo though {]:-D</p>
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:41:56 +0000Karl Stangecomment 527610 at http://typophile.comOdd. The curly brackethttp://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-527608
<p>Odd. The curly bracket reminds me of a tiara...</p>
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:30:05 +0000Té Rowancomment 527608 at http://typophile.com]:-D (That's the 'devilishhttp://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-527603
<blockquote><p>]:-D (That's the 'devilish laughter' smiley, btw.)</p></blockquote>
<p>I have always used }:-D, the square bracket striking me as more of a crown.</p>
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:16:09 +0000Karl Stangecomment 527603 at http://typophile.comToo bad that bumping a bighttp://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-527599
<p>Too bad that bumping a big post doesn't get it re-read. Not! ]:-D (That's the 'devilish laughter' smiley, btw.)</p>
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:01:48 +0000Té Rowancomment 527599 at http://typophile.comI must say: impressive, evenhttp://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-527452
<p>I must say: impressive, even if you just made it all up. Jeez</p>
Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:49:58 +0000Queneaucomment 527452 at http://typophile.comJust found this discussion onhttp://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-527435
<p>Just found this discussion on myfonts:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/forum/case/160396/" title="http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/forum/case/160396/">http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/forum/case/160396/</a></p>
Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:24:05 +0000Karl Stangecomment 527435 at http://typophile.comIt's blatant advertising,http://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-527431
<p>It's blatant advertising, sure, but at least it is relevant to this site.</p>
Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:11:12 +0000Té Rowancomment 527431 at http://typophile.comDerek,
Forgive me forhttp://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-527424
<p>Derek,</p>
<p>Forgive me for pointing this out, but this entire thread smells suspiciously of Spam…</p>
Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:43:26 +0000oldnickcomment 527424 at http://typophile.comAh Uli, glad you chime inhttp://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-527156
<p>Ah Uli, glad you chime in here.</p>
<p>You seem to know a lot about all this stuff. I would like to know what are current and/or former connections between URW (URW++), Softmaker and FontSite. I still do not understand it. Basically the comparable fonts by URW, SM and FS have the same outlines (I checked) so they can be set in one paragraph without noticable difference. The do have different kerning and character sets though, and the FS fonts are now in OpenType with several OT features. They seem to develop the same base material on their own. So do Softmaker. But I thought that Softmaker licensed the fonts from URW, or bought the rights when they went bankrupt. But they claim to have licensed them from URW++ (URWs succesor), which brings the question if they now activily work together or not? I would not be interested in this, if the core set of fonts (outlines, metrics) was not sound, which they are, but I am curious how they can be offered for such different prices, under so many different names....</p>
<p>BTW It seems a core set of fonts that features on the SM collections, seem to be on almost all cheap font CDs here, like the Data Becker CD, Franzis font collections, Clickart packages, Serif font collections, etc. It's a jungle out there...</p>
Sun, 21 Oct 2012 09:11:22 +0000Queneaucomment 527156 at http://typophile.comHVB:
For your convenience, Ihttp://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-527145
<p>HVB:</p>
<p>For your convenience, I uploaded a ASCII file here:<br />
<a href="http://www.sanskritweb.net/forgers/megafont.txt" title="http://www.sanskritweb.net/forgers/megafont.txt">http://www.sanskritweb.net/forgers/megafont.txt</a></p>
<p>Queneau:</p>
<p>The list is no "baloney", as Mr. Kotolla said at his sofmaker forum.<br />
In fact, the list is more or less Mr. Kotulla's own font renaming list.</p>
<p>Please note: I only stated that the above <strong>LIST</strong> is no "baloney".</p>
Sun, 21 Oct 2012 06:12:32 +0000Ulicomment 527145 at http://typophile.commight be interesting to findhttp://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-527117
<p>might be interesting to find out what softmaker have to say:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.softmaker.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&amp;t=11972&amp;p=42225#p42225" title="http://www.softmaker.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&amp;t=11972&amp;p=42225#p42225">http://www.softmaker.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&amp;t=11972&amp;p=42225#p42225</a></p>
<p>they seem to know Derek, as do the MyFonts people, apparently. I don't know what to think about this now. If, Derek, you do understand what I am saying, please read the words by mr Kotulla in the Softmaker forum. It seems at least some things you have said are not true, according to him. I am interested in real knowledge on these subjects, but now it is hard to tell if it is, or if it isjust fantasy. Please explain why you post this stuff...</p>
<p>sorry, if I hurt your feelings with previous posts, but please understand that this can easily be misunderstood as spam.</p>
Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:17:31 +0000Queneaucomment 527117 at http://typophile.com@Derek
When you post longhttp://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-527114
<p>@Derek<br />
When you post long lists, it would be much easier for everyone if you could either post them to a website (providing a link here) or at least convert the format to a plain old comma-separated list instead of a three or four-yard long vertically scrolling text list :)</p>
<p>Personally, I find your lists quite useful. It's nice to have fairly complete lists of these collections - no matter what their origins may be.</p>
<p> - Herb</p>
Sat, 20 Oct 2012 19:57:00 +0000HVBcomment 527114 at http://typophile.comCan you prove you'rehttp://typophile.com/node/1492#comment-527113
<p>Can you prove you're human?</p>
<p>hhp</p>
Sat, 20 Oct 2012 19:51:43 +0000hrantcomment 527113 at http://typophile.com